More Pictures!!

The plane wing over the ocean!

Me with the Sydney Harbour Bridge!

The Sydney Opera House!

Krystal & I in the Royal Botanic Gardens! There was nasty Eels in that pond!

The Waves on Bondi Beach were a lot higher than I though they'd be

Krystal & I on Bondi Beach!

Me on Bondi Beach!!

Krystal & I in the Ocean!

Krystal & I on Manly Beach

Krystal & I in Port Maquarie

The Moon on the shorline in Port Maquarie

I wonder if it will let me post pictures now....

YES IT DID!!!!!

A Seal and Myself at the Sydney Aquarium

A shark at the Sydney Aquarium

My meal at McDonalds in Sydney

The Ugggglllyyyyy trucks that are all over the place

A Shark at the Sydney Aquarium

The Australian Big Brother house enterance

A Giant shark head at Dreamworld

The Wiggles World enterance at Dreamworld!

Me and a Koala!!!!

Some of the many Kangaroos at Dreamworld. There was soooo many.

Me and a Kangaroo!!

Ugh

Okayyy so my internet is friggen slow so I cant do pictures right now, but I will asap!

Dreamworld!... and Some cuddly friends!

We Arrived in Surfers Paradise yesterday and spent that resting from our long drive. Krystal and I took a walk on the beach and went in the hotel pool before catching up on some missed internet time!

  

Today Krystal and I went to Dreamworld which is like an Amuesement Park and Zoo kinda combined in one. We got there when it opened at 10 and we stayed till 5. The rides were pretty cool, We went on 2 water ones and them some other thrill ones. The park is divided into a bunch of areas theres Nickelodoen Central and Australian Wildlife Experience (theres a bunch of animals there) Theres another one called Gold Rush County, Tiger Island (pretty self explanitory - Such cute tigers!) Then theres Dream world studios which houses...... The Australia Big Brother House!! I though that was pretty sweet! You get to walk through the house and see all the behind the scences stuff and then walk through the rooms. It probably would have been sweeter if we saw the show but it was still pretty cool. We've been finding this in australia have been quite more expensive than canada and this was no different - at the house you can pay to get your picture takin in the diary chair, for 20$! and you cant use your own cameras. We thought that was ridiculous! And its crazy just how little privacy they have!

Another are is called Wiggles World, Based off of the show The Wiggles, and As I walked through there I know Jonah would have just loved it there! I took tons of pictures and even a video, Everything there is Wiggles, the Rides the food places - All wiggles all the time!

  

But the best part of the entire day was Krystal and I got to hold KOALAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it was sooo exciting, they are so cute and cuddly and AH I just loved them! We even got our picture taken with them! ( I will post it later!) Also with the Koalas is a Kangaroo Enclosure, There was like 10-15 Kangaroos just hanging out, no trainers or anything just them hanging out, you can go up to them and pet them and take pictures. It was so much fun! It got me excited for the Australia Zoo on Sunday!!

  

Today Krystal and I were getting food and the woman serving us said "where are you from? you have such strong accents" we found that quite funny seeing as we dont think we have the accents but they do! Also when we told her we were from Canada she said she had never seen snow before, I found that crazy to think some people havent seen snow before - I've seen enough to last me a life time!

  

We did that allllllll day and then just came back to the hotel. I'm quite sleepy and plan on going to bed pretty early to rest up for our beach day tomorrow ( hopefully!)

Thats all from Surfers Paradise! I'll post some pics below!

The Beach!!!

Since its Sunday we decided to find a Corps to go to, we looked at the 2 closest towhere we are staying. We Google'd them and could get pictures of the two. The firstone in manly looked slightly sketchy, So we decided to go to the other one in Dee Why.

When we got there we realized that it was a smaller corps made up of mostly retiredofficers. We met one cute lady who is a retired Colonel whos name was Leah, She askedKrystal to sing the Canadian National Anthem. As shes singing Leah Taps my back and Says "Stand up Straight this is your anthem" So there we were Krystal singing theAnthem and me standing at attention in a Salvation Army in Australia...

After that we decided to go to Manly Beach. It was my very first time swimmingin the ocean and it was pretty darn cool. Krystal and I took a Ton of picturesand Did some Body Surfing, though I think we need some more practice as we inhaleda ton of water.
We did a lot of laying out on the beach, and felt the effects later that nigght.We were both sooooo burned. Which have now turned into tans.

Sharks & Sea Lions Oh Myyyy

So on the first night I went to sleep at like 830pm, and I knew that wasnt such agood idea but I did it none-the-less. So I woke up at 630am and just kinda layedthere untill 8 when I fell asleep again. Then finally Krystal, Rebecca and I wokeup at 11.

So I wanted to get my shopping done as soon as possible so we headed to a outdoormarket/shopping area called The Rocks. There was tons of sweet shops to look around.we bought some fudge and Gellato!!!! (I Havent had good Gelato since Italy and Ihave missed it so!!) Then I bought my mommy some Uggs, and Some stuff for Logan &Abby!

We then headed to the Sydney Aquarium and that was freakin cool! I had my Camera with me(duhhhh) and took some pretty awesome pictures. We saw Seals, Sharks, Eels,Old wife fish's, Jew fish's, Lots of Rays and lots of other kinds of fishys.

Now Krystal and I had a little issue at the Aqaurium... we would be walking throughand would here parents and children alike saying "theres nemo or theres dory" atfirst it was cute, but it soon got very very annoying, but what can you do.
That night for supper we went to Mcdonals, It was so sweet cause they have McCafé'shere! and Also 'Frozen Cokes' which are coke slurpees!
Day 2 done!

Dayyyy 1

Oct 10
So after 15 hours of flying I landed in Sydney, Now on the plane we were told thatAustralia has pretty intense laws about bringing stuff in that might hurt thereagriculture. So we had to answer this declaration form thing, then once we got offthe plan we had to go through Boarder Security and Quarantine, It took for freakinever and I was so scared that something in my bag was going to be Illegal, but itwas all good!

So I came out and saw Krystal, Kim & Shawn waiting for me! and I was soooo excitedfinally be there after lonnngg amounts of travelling.
So we went back to our hostel in a town called Collowroy which is just outside ofSydney and got ready for the day.

We decided to go see the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. It was pretty cool to actually get to see those upclose and it kinda made it sink in that I wasactually in Australia. So right outside the Opera house is the Royal Botanic Gardensso we decided to walk through there and go and get some food. There was a lot of palmtrees and flowers and more trees. It was all pretty sweet till we got to the cafeand looked up and saw that there was HUNDREDS of yucky Bats hanging from the trees.I`m friggen terrified of bats so I was not excited at all! Everyone formed a humanwall around me so they wouldnt attack me, I was quite thankful for that.Then on the way back we walked by this pretty fountain and read a sign saying that there was Eels in the pond, and thate even when they drain the pond the eels return!So we were on the lookout for the eels and finally we spotted one, they are nastyyand creepy looking so we took a few pictures and left.

So before we headed back to the hostel we decided to go check out Bondi Beach, Itwas quite massive and we decided to talk around the shore, but we didnt anticipatethe waves comming up as high as they did. So we got quite wet!
Thats it for the first dayyy!
<3

quick update.
in san fran, after a hella long walk. i am so stressed, wannnna sleep and just get on the plane and get to sydney and see her cousin.i friggen miss my home, and it sucks.
but i know this will be an amazing trip. hopefully i get a good seat on the plan and can get some rest.
talk to you in sydney!

25 days + 1 Backpack = ...Scared

So when I first found out I was going to Australia I was sooooo excited. But then a though pop'd into my mind... "What will I pack?"

Knowing that The Way's were only taking backpacks made me think if of what I was going to bring.

Now I am no light packer. I go to camp for a week and bring 4 MASSIVE suitcases, Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I over pack for everything. But for this amazing 25 day journey I, Sarah, will be travelling with only ONE backpack - Mind you it is a quite large one. This is still one of the major parts that freaks me out!

We'll see how the packing goes! Wish me luck!

This Is the Lovely Backpack I will be taking with me on the trip, Thanks to the lovely Erin for lending it to me!

2 Days and Counting =)